- Date
- July 30, 1997, 18:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Dayton, TN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N450HPBoeing A75
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 2, 1998
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19970730023539A
- Case key
- 38319
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control on landing rollout resulting in an inadvertent ground loop, and on-ground collision between the left wing and the runway. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's total lack of experience in kind of aircraft.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot stated he made a wheel landing. When the tail wheel touched down, he lost directional, ground looped the airplane, and the left wing collided with the runway. Review of the pilot's logbook revealed he had a total of 12.1 hours experience in the Boeing A75 airplane.
Factual narrative
On July 30, 1997, about 1845 eastern daylight time, a Boeing A75, N450HP, registered to a private owner, operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, crashed on landing at the Marc Anton Airport, Dayton, Tennessee. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The private pilot and one passenger reported no injuries. The flight originated from Mark Anton Airport about 45 minutes before the accident.
The pilot stated he made a wheel landing. When the tail wheel touched down, he lost directional control, ground looped the airplane, and the left wing collided with the runway. The pilot indicated on the NTSB Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report that he had a total of 12.1 hours in the Boeing A75 airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N450HP
- Reported as
- Boeing A75
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-4000
- Airframe hours
- 9,198
- Engine
- P&W R985-AN1, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jeffrey R. Ellingham
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 25, 1997 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- 2AO
- Airport
- 2AO · Mark Anton, runway 3, 4,504 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 202 total · 12 in this make and model · 160 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHA, 37 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.